More details here:
http://gigaom.com/2013/04/23/data-center-rivals-facebook-and-google-pump-700m-in-new-construction-into-iowa/
and here
http://media.wix.com/ugd/240c0c_6286645d856b32b91fa444043a6e2cff.pdf
Facebook formally announced the construction of a new data
center<http://newsroom.fb.com/News/606/A-New-Data-Center-for-Iowa> in
Altoona, Iowa. Construction on the first phase will begin this summer and
your Facebook likes and photos will start traveling over the data center in
late 2014 according to Tom Furlong, vice president of site operations at
Facebook.
He said that while newspaper reports placed the value of the
center<http://gigaom.com/2013/04/22/data-centers-are-getting-more-sophisticated-so-why-arent-our-metrics-keeping-up/>
at
$1 billion to $1.5 billion, he’s unsure where those figures came from. This
first phase will cost $300 million and result in a 476,000 square-foot data
center. That square footage includes both offices and floor space.
On 8 April 2014 15:07, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Me: But doesn't running a large internet computer system cost a lot of
> > money?
>
>
> If people realized just how much money...
>
> Fecesbook is building a new data center here in central Iowa. Throwing
> up a building doesn't cost much money. Throwing up a building built to
> modern data center standards DOES cost a LOT of money. By the time
> they have the first bit of it actually online and working, the
> physical plant with equipment investment is measured in multiple
> billions of dollars. Add to that the fact that the fiber optic links
> to these centers (which are leased from the telecoms) can cost
> millions of dollars a month. FB's fiber connectivity will be measured
> in terabits. The power consumption of this one building is that of a
> decent sized city.
>
> And it doesn't cost us a dime. We just donate personal information.
>
>
>
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